Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art  
Sarah Stevenson

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2000         (three shapes), independent project with The Gallery of Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montréal
1999         Almost Invisible, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
                Galerie René Blouin, Montréal
1998         Galerie René Blouin, Montréal
1996         Galerie René Blouin, Montréal
1995         Galerie René Blouin, Montréal
1993         Galerie René Blouin, Montréal
1992         Galerie René Blouin, Montréal
                Plug In Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
1991         Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario
1990         Kingston Artists' Association Inc., Kingston, Ontario
                Oboro, Montréal
                Nothing Up My Sleeve, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario
1987         Without Language, YYZ, Toronto, Ontario
                Articule, Montréal

GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2001         Paysages, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal
                Artcité, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
2000         Snapshot, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland USA
                London Biennale 2000, Internet and various locations in London, England
                The Very Thing, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1999         Redefining the Still Life, Selections from the permanent collection/La nature morte: oeuvres tirées de la collection                 permanente, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal
1998         Between Body and Soul, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Liane and Danny Taran Gallery,
                Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montréal
                El origen de las cosas, Salas de las Custodias, Santafé de Bogotà, Colombie
1997         From head to toes, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany; Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; The         
                Burgenländische Landesgalerie, Eisenstadt, Austria
                L'origine des choses, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
                La collection Prêt d’oeuvres d’art, acquisitions 1997, Musée du Québec, Québec
                Brancusi - Une fiction de l’atelier, Axe NÉO-7, Hull, Québec
1996         L’Écart, Centre d’art contemporain La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France
                Ginette Légaré, Lucie Robert, Sarah Stevenson, Glendon Gallery, Glendon College, Ontario,
                York University, North York,
1995         A Notion of Conflict - A selection of contemporary Canadian art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
                The Table Project, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario
1994         Perspective (Sarah Stevenson, Carlo Cesta), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
                L'origine des choses, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal itinerary :
                Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario;
                The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, 1995]
                Séduction: Jana Sterbak, Sarah Stevenson, Javier Pérez, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal
                Choix d'acquisitions récentes de la collection permanente / From the permanent collection:
                a selection of recent acquisitions, galerie d'art Leonard & Bina Ellen, Université Concordia, Montréal
1993         Prospect 93, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
1992         34 Raume, Berlin, Germany
1989         Beyond Surface, Western Front, Vancouver, B.C..
1988         Studio Escalier A, Vancouver, B.C.
1987         Artropolis, Vancouver, B.C.
1985         Heart Breakaway, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta
                Women in This Decade, Robson Square Media Centre, Vancouver, B.C.

COLLECTIONS

Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
Crédit Lyonnais Canada, Montréal
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal
La collection prêt d'oeuvres d'art du Musée du Québec, Québec
Galerie d'art Leonard & Bina Ellen, Montréal
Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Private Collections

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1988       Teacher, Ontario College of Art

GRANTS

2001                 Canada Council Paris Studio
2000                 ‘B’ Grant, Canada Council
1999                 Studio du Québec à New York, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
1998                 'B' Grant, Canada Council
1996                 'B' Grant, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
1994                 'B' Grant, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
1992                 'B' Grant, Canada Council
1990                 Artistic Practice Grant, type 'B', Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec
1989                 ‘B’ Grant, Canada Council
1988                 ‘B’ Grant, Canada Council
1987                 Project Grant, Canada Council
                        Materials grant, Ontario Arts Council
1986                 Project Grant, Canada Council

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CATALOGUES:

Almost Invisible, text by Michael Tarantino, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, 2001
Snapshot, text by Adam Lerner, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 2000
The Very Thing, text by Susan Gibson Garvey and Robin Metcalfe,Dalhousie Gallery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2000
Between Body and Soul/Entre Corps et Âme, text by Karen Antaki and David Liss, Leonard &Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Liane and Danny Taran Gallery, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montréal, 1999
Von Kopf Bis Fuss, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Editions Stemmle, 1997
L’Écart, text by Daniel Dobbels, Centre d’art contemporain de La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France, 1996
Ginette Légaré, Lucie Robert, Sarah Stevenson, Glendon Gallery, Glendon College, York University, City of North York, 1996
Notion of Conflict A Selection of Contemporary Canadian Art, text by Dorine Mignot, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1995, ill. p. 35
Perspective 94, text by Christina Ritchie, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1994
L'origine des choses, text by Pierre Landry, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, 1994, ill. pp. 39-40-41
Prospect 93, text by Peter Weiermair, Frankfurter Kunstverein et Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, 1993, ill.
pp. 235-236-237
Townsend, Martha; Sarah Stevenson (interview), Mercer Union, Toronto, 1990PERIODICALS:
Lammerich, Yvonne "Why does terror seem so intimate?", Etc, No 54, eté 2001 pp.48-52
Lehman, Henry;"Cyber exhibition has global ambitions" The Gazette, Montréal, August 12, 2000
Gopnik, Blake;"Remaking The World In Our Image", Globe and Mail, February 9, 2000, p. R10
Workman, Sharon;"Sculpture’s The Thing", Halifax Chronicle-Herald, January 16, 2000
Kozinska, Dorota; "Belgo Shows are Beacons Amid Visual Clutter", The Gazette, Montréal, Saturday, May 29, 1999, p.J5
Mavrikakis, Nicolas;" Le corps réinventé", Voir, Montréal, 19 to 25 November 1998, p. 75
Lehman, Henry:"Artists Construct Fantasy Selves", The Gazette, Montréal, November 21, 1998
Couelle, Jennifer; "Encore le corps mais cette fois, éthéré", La Presse, Montréal, le samedi 14 novembre 1998, p.D16
Lamarche, Bernard; "Corps physique", Le Devoir, Montréal, les samedi 5 et dimanche 6 décembre 1998, p. B8
Kolodiejchuk, Jacqueline;"Bodies of Work", The Link, Montréal, November 6, 1998
Catchlove, Lucinda;" Luminous pain", Hour, Montréal, September 5-11, 1996, p. 25
Liss, David; "Peculiar, perceptive, promising : Vitality in works by Stevenson, Goodwin, Ocampo and Fisher", The Gazette, Montréal, Saturday, February 25, 1995, p. H6
Cummins, Louis; "La fin des complicités", Parachute, No. 77, janv., fév., mars 1995, pp.27-32
MacKay, Gillian; "Perspective 94: Carlo Cesta and Sarah Stevenson", Canadian Art, Winter 1994, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 78-79
Girling, Oliver; "The ghetto is ourselves", Eye, November 17, 1994
Hume, Christopher; "Wrought with contradictions", The Toronto Star, Thursday, November 3, 1994
Taylor, Kate; "A complacent patient", The Globe and Mail, Tuesday, November 15, 1994
Aquin, Stéphane; "L'origine des choses - ligne de conduite", Voir, Montréal, du 27 octobre au 2 novembre 1994, p. 63
Cron, Marie-Michèle; "Les choses de la vie", Le Devoir, Montréal, les samedi 29 et dimanche 30 octobre 1994, p. D11
Duncan, Ann; "In support of young artists", The Gazette, Montreal, Saturday, October 22, 1994,
Duncan, Ann; "Once more, Sterbak aims to unsettle", The Gazette, Montréal, June 18, 1994
Bradley, Jessica; "Sarah Stevenson", Canadian Art, Vol. 10, no. 4, Winter/December 1993, p.69
"Stevenson scales down with clothing exhibition", The Uniter, Winnipeg, 28 octobre 1992, p.8
Gillmor, Alison; "Art explores cruel constrictions", Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday, October 17, 1992, p. 36
Gravel, Claire; "Oboro: Sarah Stevenson", Le Devoir, avril 1990
"Women Photographers of British Columbia", West Coast Review, Vol.20, June 1985, pp.20-21

PERIODICALS:

Lammerich, Yvonne "Why does terror seem so intimate?", Etc, No 54, eté 2001 pp.48-52
Lehman, Henry;"Cyber exhibition has global ambitions" The Gazette, Montréal, August 12, 2000
Gopnik, Blake;"Remaking The World In Our Image", Globe and Mail, February 9, 2000, p. R10
Workman, Sharon;"Sculpture’s The Thing", Halifax Chronicle-Herald, January 16, 2000
Kozinska, Dorota; "Belgo Shows are Beacons Amid Visual Clutter", The Gazette, Montréal, Saturday, May 29, 1999, p.J5
Mavrikakis, Nicolas;" Le corps réinventé", Voir, Montréal, 19 to 25 November 1998, p. 75
Lehman, Henry:"Artists Construct Fantasy Selves", The Gazette, Montréal, November 21, 1998
Couelle, Jennifer; "Encore le corps mais cette fois, éthéré", La Presse, Montréal, le samedi 14 novembre 1998, p.D16
Lamarche, Bernard; "Corps physique", Le Devoir, Montréal, les samedi 5 et dimanche 6 décembre 1998, p. B8
Kolodiejchuk, Jacqueline;"Bodies of Work", The Link, Montréal, November 6, 1998
Catchlove, Lucinda;" Luminous pain", Hour, Montréal, September 5-11, 1996, p. 25
Liss, David; "Peculiar, perceptive, promising : Vitality in works by Stevenson, Goodwin, Ocampo and Fisher", The Gazette, Montréal, Saturday, February 25, 1995, p. H6
Cummins, Louis; "La fin des complicités", Parachute, No. 77, janv., fév., mars 1995, pp.27-32
MacKay, Gillian; "Perspective 94: Carlo Cesta and Sarah Stevenson", Canadian Art, Winter 1994, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 78-79
Girling, Oliver; "The ghetto is ourselves", Eye, November 17, 1994
Hume, Christopher; "Wrought with contradictions", The Toronto Star, Thursday, November 3, 1994
Taylor, Kate; "A complacent patient", The Globe and Mail, Tuesday, November 15, 1994
Aquin, Stéphane; "L'origine des choses - ligne de conduite", Voir, Montréal, du 27 octobre au 2 novembre 1994, p. 63
Cron, Marie-Michèle; "Les choses de la vie", Le Devoir, Montréal, les samedi 29 et dimanche 30 octobre 1994, p. D11
Duncan, Ann; "In support of young artists", The Gazette, Montreal, Saturday, October 22, 1994,
Duncan, Ann; "Once more, Sterbak aims to unsettle", The Gazette, Montréal, June 18, 1994
Bradley, Jessica; "Sarah Stevenson", Canadian Art, Vol. 10, no. 4, Winter/December 1993, p.69
"Stevenson scales down with clothing exhibition", The Uniter, Winnipeg, 28 octobre 1992, p.8
Gillmor, Alison; "Art explores cruel constrictions", Winnipeg Free Press, Saturday, October 17, 1992, p. 36
Gravel, Claire; "Oboro: Sarah Stevenson", Le Devoir, avril 1990
"Women Photographers of British Columbia", West Coast Review, Vol.20, June 1985, pp.20-21